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Comment by Samuel_Michon | Hacker News Reader

How is that different from the US?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp#H...

The point is that Israeli citizens and nationals can be held without trial indefinitely in Israel. That is not something we have to worry about here to the same extent.

Sure, maybe not to the same extent, but as long as the definition of an ‘enemy combatant’ remains unclear, American citizens can be arrested and held without formal charges or trial.

Thus far the government has shown that they are unwilling to let the Supreme Court review that regarding citizens. They would rather go to trial than let a question (where the individual was captured far from combat zones) go before the Supreme Court.

We should remember what Bush asked the 4th Circuit to do when Padilla petitioned to the Supreme Court for the second time.... Fortunately the court would have none of these games.

Or the UK:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Act_2006#Extending_th...

Laws written originally to thwart the IRA were used to detain suspects and in many cases innocent people, who happened to be Irish, where convicted after confessions were cohered out of them. Can you imagine being jailed for 90 days and being interrogated for that length of time?

It seems plausible that the same thing will happen to innocent Arabs and Muslims whom are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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